Anti-DUI operations in Temecula and the rest of Riverside County will be fully funded for another year thanks to a $385,000 state grant, it was announced Thursday.
The California Office of Traffic Safety awarded the funds in support of the county's "Avoid the 30" task force, comprised of 30 law enforcement agencies that operate within the county, often conducting simultaneous operations to crack down on motorists driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Along with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department—which Temecula contracts with for its police force—and all municipal police agencies in the county, the UC Riverside Police Department, Riverside Community College Police Department, California Highway Patrol, California State Parks Service and California Alcohol Beverage Control Department participate in Avoid the 30.
The term "avoid" derives from the campaign's goal of encouraging people to obey the law so they can avoid being arrested.
"Avoid (has) been an essential part of the phenomenal reduction in DUI deaths that we witnessed from 2006 to 2010 in California," said OTS Director Christopher Murphy. "But since the tragedy of DUI accounts for nearly one- third of traffic fatalities, Riverside County needs the high visibility enforcement and public awareness that this grant will provide."
Avoid operations include driver's license and sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and other deployments.
Extra and overtime staffing can be necessary for operations. the largest number of which occur during holiday periods and special events.
The next major Avoid campaign is scheduled during the last two weeks of the year. The 2011 holiday season operations netted 682 arrests -- a 30 percent jump from the first Avoid the 30 holiday season campaign in 2008.
The Riverside Police Department has been the grant administrator since operations got under way in 2008.
I wish you could comment without calling names. Its just not necessary. In truth the MAJORITY of jobs you mention are worked by documented workers, the ones who came here legally, resident card, work card, and get a job that did not require experience or english. Not many employers hire illegals as they get caught in the first month when payroll taxes are mailed in and include a list of social security numbers and names. Those are checked each month in our wonderful system not for just Dads/Mothers who don't pay child support but also illegals working under illegal paperwork, ie Birth Certificates, DL's, Social Security Cards. If they spoke english and had some education in one trade or another they would get hired making more money or the same 8.00 to 10.00 bucks an hr our Citizens do. Jobs could be, as a welder, an assemblyman, a file clerk in an office, reservation desks, a supervisor in a warehouse where bi-ligual is a must and the list goes on and on. The ILLEGALS who do not have legal paperwork will hardly ever try for a job where they have to give their fake documents, because, it will be reported. Undocumented Nannies/Housekeepers used to get work easy but now we are more knowledgeable to health and safety for our children. There are agencies we pay a fee to who has employee'd them legally and then you pay the agency. You are talking more like 10 to 20+ years ago when we did not have the automated payroll systems we do now.
I sincerely apologize, the calling of names was totally inappropriate and unnececssary. I was just letting my frustration show. Yes these undocumented workers live in constant fear of being stopped, thousands of them work in domestic jobs, self employed mowing lawns, painting and doing all types of work and not paying into our tax system. Most of them would love to become part of that system, they do not want to live in fear of being jailed or deported, many of them have had children here and the stories of families being broken up due to these encarcerations and deportations are heart wrenching. They are human beings, they want the same thing that you and I want, to live in a safe place and raise their kids in the best country in the world. They are not takers, they do not consider themselves entitled and like I said before, their work ethic is to be admired.
Thank you, I do appreciate it and I do understand your point. Its very easy to get a visa to get over into the USA and alot of times if they get a card to work then will be allowed to stay. This is the way someone in our family hired a few and he had many many good employee's for years. But then he also had the ones try to sneak past him with fake Identifications. Its not hard at all to get into the USA the right way and they do not get raped by the coyotes, they oftentimes end up making drugs, transporting them, human transportation and exploitation, provide young girls for sex, to pay off their fee for being brought here. A pregnant woman pays 3 to 5k for a lift to the USA, because she is pregnant and that makes her a prize to that family, so she pays more. An unmarried young woman will pay around 3k and a man will pay around 1500 depending on his age. An older lady often times gets dumped out of the van and is not taken :/ most times after she has given them her money. Heck we arent even allowed in other countries without "our paperwork" ! All I say is no matter where illegals are coming from, please do it right. We are the easiest country in the world to get a Visa for a 6 month stay, then to get extensions and work permits. Just do it the right way, nothing illegal, everything on the up and up and no collecting aid, illegal activities, learn english at many of the places available for free.
Many of these country's CRIMINALS also come here to escape what happens to them when caught in Central America. These refugees we don't need. Sorry the boat is full up here. Get the word out by putting the military on the border with shoot-on-sight orders, just like Mexico does to Guatemala.. Come to the US legally or don't come at all...
When the US cuts off entitlements and starts to earnestly warehouse criminals, there will be plenty of Americans willing to do menial labor. Why don't you read about the last Great Depression? Ever heard of Okies?
they work hard too...not easy to be a ruthless killer...
Yes I agree we need to warehouse real criminals, thieves, rapists, vandals etc. The majority of the illegals that we have here are here because of the lax attitude we have had in the past, the lax borders and the fact that for years our government officials looked the other way because we needed these hard working people. No its not about getting cheap labor, its about getting people who will work hard, show up and not complain. If we deport or warehouse all these people, do you honestly think that magically hardworking American workers will just appear and be ready to work hard, show up and not complain??? If so what are they doing while they wait for the illegals to be kicked out?
We do need to tighten our borders, but it would be suicide to lock up and ship out all the ones we have let in already. An amnesty program has to be set in place, they should pay for the right to get legal, even if its a pay as you go and work up to legalization. They need to learn english, it should be a requirement
What then?
Legal resident aliens of the US will be deported for criminal infractions. This is already a US immigration law. Misdemeanors included. Criminal aliens (and their dependents) will be imprisoned in work camps for several years before deportation. This is how most countries of the world solve their immigration matters...
"These "illegal aliens" as you and others call them..." No, it's what they are as that is what the U.S. Code refers to them as. It's not an arbitrary term meant to disparage it's a legal term. Calling them "undocumented" is an attempt to remove the illegality of their actions that brought them here. To come illegally into the United States is a crime regardless of what the activists tell you. It's not a civil action as "civil actions" don't have jail time associated with them. Illegal entry does. 8 U.S.C. § 1325 : US Code - Section 1325: Improper entry by alien (a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.